Tonight, since my thread is getting no action lately, I thought that I'd make some mix CDs of the best songs of 2010. Only catch is I only put one song from each album or EP. So feel free to check these songs out in any way you check out songs and discover some great new music All of these songs are in random order and are not ranked:

They will be shown in this order
Band:
Song:
Album:

Disc 1:

Alter Bridge
Isolation
AB III

Disturbed
Asylum
Asylum

Gloria Morti
Solution Called War
Anthems Of Annihilation

Dimmu Borgir
Born Treacherous
Abrahadabra

Nachtmystium
Nightfall
Addicts Black Meddle Pt II

God Is An Astronaut
Worlds In Collision
Age Of The Fifth Sun

Haken
Streams
Aquarius

Blind Guardian
A Voice In The Dark
At The Edge Of Time

Stone Sour
Mission Statement
Audio Secrecy

Return To Earth
Automata
Automata

Levi / Werstler
Dura Mater
Avalanche of Worms

Enslaved
Ethica Odini
Axioma Ethica Odini

Ihsahn
On The Shores
After

Disc 2:

Charred Walls Of The Damned
Ghost Town
Charred Walls Of The Damned

Cloudkicker
Oh, God.
Beacons

Volbeat
Evelyn
Beyond Hell Above Heaven

Shining
Fisheye
Blackjazz

Hellish Crossfire
At The Edge Of Total Chaos
Bloodrust Scythe

GWAR
Zombies, March!
Bloody Pit Of Horror

Boris with Ian Astbury
Teeth And Claws
BXI

Lehto & Wright
The Broomfield Hill
Children's Songs

The Album Leaf
Falling From The Sun
A Chorus Of Storytellers

Flotsam & Jetsam
Blackened Eyes Staring
The Cold

Sevendust
Splinter
Cold Day Memory

Story Of The Year
The Children Sing
The Constant

Holy Grail
My Last Attack
Crisis In Utopia

Electric Wizard
Scorpio Curse
Black Masses

Balmorhea
On The Weight Of Night
Constellations

Disc 3:

Alcest
Ecailles De Lune (Part I)
Ecailles De Lune

Early Man
The Undertaker Is Calling You
Death Potion

1349
Atomic Chapel
Demonoir

Deftones
Diamond Eyes
Diamond Eyes

Raunchy
The Yeah Thing
A Discord Electric

Bad Religion
Wrong Way Kids
The Dissent of Man

The Crinn
Incipience
Dreaming Saturn

Fatal Embrace
The Prophecy
The Empires of Inhumanity

Martriden
Human Error?
Encounter The Monolith

Enditol
Monoculture
Enditol

The Absence
Maelstrom
Enemy Unbound

Bison B.C.
Stressed Elephant
Dark Ages

Averse
Fleetingness Of Solar Happiness
The Endesque Chants

Disc 4:

Iron Maiden
Satellite 15...The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier

Triptykon
A Thousand Lies
Eparistera Daimones

Eluveitie
Everything Remains (As It Never Was)
Everything Remains As It Never Was

Hate
Lux Aeterna
Erebos

Lair Of The Minotaur
Let's Kill These Motherfuckers
Evil Power

Exodus
Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Exhibit B: The Human Condition

Red Sparowes
A Hail of Bombs
The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer

Bullet For My Valentine
Your Betrayal
Fever

All That Remains
Aggressive Opposition
For We Are Many

Allegaeon
From Seed to Throne
Fragments of Form and Function

Howl
Jezebel
Full Of Hell

Infernaeon
Creeping Death
Genesis To Nemesis

Solution .45
Clandestinity Now
For Aeons Past

Disc 5:

Overkill
Bring Me The Night
Ironbound

The Damned Things
We've Got a Situation Here
Ironiclast

Misery Index
Fed to the Wolves
Heirs To Thievery

Weezer
Memories
Hurley

The Roots
Radio Daze
How I Got Over

After The Burial
Pendulum
In Dreams

Abigail Williams
Malediction
In The Absence Of Light

Malevolent Creation
Compulsive Facebreaker
Invidious Dominion

Atheist
Fictitious Glide
Jupiter

Canvas Solaris
Glacier
Irradiance

Jimmy Gnecco
Days
The Heart

Seventh Wonder
The Great Escape
The Great Escape

Disc 6:

Cee Lo Green
Fuck You
The Lady Killer

Cloud Cult
Running With the Wolves
Light Chasers

Agalloch
Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires
Marrow of the Spirit

Armored Saint
Loose Cannon
La Raza

Emanuel And The Fear
Guatemala
Listen

Angels & Airwaves
The Flight of Apollo
Love

In Vain
On The Banks Of Mississippi
Mantra

Fear Factory
Industrial Discipline
Mechanize

Menomena
Sleeping Beauty
Mines

In Mourning
For You To Know
Monolith

Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats
Moby Dick
More Meat

Halford
The Mower
Made Of Metal

Watain
Waters of Ain
Lawless Darkness

Disc 7:

Demians
Swing Of The Airwaves
Mute

Mutiny Within
Awake
Mutiny Within

Soilwork
Late For The Kill, Early For The Slaughter
The Panic Broadcast

Orphaned Land
Sapari
The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

Finntroll
Under Bergets Rot
Nifelvind

Nevermore
The Obsidian Conspiracy
The Obsidian Conspiracy

Forbidden
Forsaken At The Gates
Omega Wave

Hail Of Bullets
The Mukden Incident
On Divine Winds

Dillinger Escape Plan
Farewell, Mona Lisa
Option Paralysis

Black Label Society
Godspeed Hellbound
Order Of The Black

White Wizzard
Live Free or Die
Over The Top

Deathspell Omega
Wings of Predation
Paracletus

Minus the Bear
Summer Angel
OMNI

Judgement Day
Cobra Strike
Peacocks/Pink Monsters

Avenged Sevenfold
Save Me
Nightmare

Disc 8:

Powerglove
The Simpsons
Saturday Morning Apocalypse

Periphery
Letter Experiment
Periphery

Pain Of Salvation
No Way
Road Salt One

As I Lay Dying
Upside Down Kingdom
The Powerless Rise

Maserati
Pyramid of the Sun
Pyramid Of The Sun

Cynic
Wheels Within Wheels
Re-Traced

Elvenking
Dawnmelting
Red Silent Tides

Death Angel
Truce
Relentless Retribution

Jeremy Messersmith
Dillinger Eyes
The Reluctant Grave Yard

The River Empires
A Toast to the Snake King
The River Empires: Volume 1

Texas Hippie Coalition
Pissed Off and Mad About It
Rollin

Dax Riggs
No One Will Be A Stranger
Say Goodnight To The World

Acid Tiger
Big Beat
Self Titled

Les Discrets
Svipdagr & Freyja
Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pen

Brain Drill
Quantum Catastrophe
Quantum Catastrophe

Disc 9:

Seven Kingdoms
Somewhere Far Away
Seven Kingdoms

Allen-Lande
The Showdown
The Showdown

High On Fire
Fire, Flood & Plague
Snakes For The Divine

Mnemic
Sons Of The System
Sons Of The System

Kylesa
Dust
Spiral Shado

Bend Sinister
Things Will Get Better
Spring Romance

In This Moment
Just Drive
A Star-Crossed Wasteland

Arsis
Closer To Cold
Starve For The Devil

James LaBrie
Mislead
Static Impulse

Adebisi Shank
Masa
This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank

Dead Letter Circus
The Drum
This Is The Warning

Torche
Face The Wall
Songs For Singles

Altar of Plagues
The Weight of All
Tides

Disc 10:

Borknagar
Worldwide
Universal

The Sword
Tres Brujas
Warp Riders

Dark Tranquillity
The Fatalist
We Are The Void

God Dethroned
Under the Sign of the Iron Cross
Under the Sign of the Iron Cross

This is by far one of the more useful end of year lists because it actually has some varied styles in it. Too many lists here are just 10/20 bands who play more or less the same stuff, so all that can really be derived from them is "these bands all sound similar, so if you like a couple of them, listen to the others". Last.fm can tell me that.

A varied list like this actually suggests there are things to like between bands of otherwise different sub-genres (for people with actual varied tastes, that is). And plenty of unknown/smaller bands to discover too.

This is by far one of the more useful end of year lists because it actually has some varied styles in it. Too many lists here are just 10/20 bands who play more or less the same stuff, so all that can really be derived from them is "these bands all sound similar, so if you like a couple of them, listen to the others". Last.fm can tell me that.

A varied list like this actually suggests there are things to like between bands of otherwise different sub-genres (for people with actual varied tastes, that is). And plenty of unknown/smaller bands to discover too.

Thanks!

That was more or less the the reason why I made this thread. As much as I love Metal, I don't just listen to one genre of Metal, or hell, even listen Metal on some days. I'm a drummer first and foremost. So I gotta appreciate more then just one style to become a better drummer. I don't want to end up sounding like every other Mainstream Metal drummer out there. I like variety.

This is by far one of the more useful end of year lists because it actually has some varied styles in it. Too many lists here are just 10/20 bands who play more or less the same stuff, so all that can really be derived from them is "these bands all sound similar, so if you like a couple of them, listen to the others". Last.fm can tell me that.

A varied list like this actually suggests there are things to like between bands of otherwise different sub-genres (for people with actual varied tastes, that is). And plenty of unknown/smaller bands to discover too.

Hey, I can't help it if no one listens to as much black metal as they should.

Hey, I can't help it if no one listens to as much black metal as they should.

I have plenty of Black Metal in my collection this year. The problem is a lot of Black Metal sucks. Like a lot of genres, there are so many imitators out there that it begins to sound the same. There's only so many bands I can listen to that are constant blast beats, tremolo picking, and keyboard orchestration with corpse makeup.

This is by far one of the more useful end of year lists because it actually has some varied styles in it. Too many lists here are just 10/20 bands who play more or less the same stuff, so all that can really be derived from them is "these bands all sound similar, so if you like a couple of them, listen to the others". Last.fm can tell me that.

A varied list like this actually suggests there are things to like between bands of otherwise different sub-genres (for people with actual varied tastes, that is). And plenty of unknown/smaller bands to discover too.